I don’t think so. The door to the annex is actually a portal, so she isn’t in MSP. Monica said “library”. I think she is there. It just seems like an annex.
I interpreted Monica’s rather uncertain “H,Hello Library?” and other comments at the time to mean that even after she was inside the “Annex” all she saw was an abandoned building, until the Library responded. I’m thinking that this Annex proper is somewhere between realities – not actually the main Library, but not really on Earth (or MSP) either.
the way i see it, is that when Monica walked in and said “and NOT a scary abandoned building” was because from the outside before she walked in it “was” an abandoned building and she could see that, but after she went thru the door/gate she came into the “empty” annex floor, that after she told the annex systems what she was after, it then filled up with bookshelves ala’ Matrix. That’s why she was hesitant at first, she was expecting the annex to look similar to the main library, already filled with a bunch of book shelves like a IRL library would be, not just a nicely finished but EMPTY room.
as for Euryale, i personally would agree that she walked in via the same street entrance that M did, however, it could also be said that “The Annex” is just a shared-room construct that can be accessed from anywhere if there is a proper door/gate alignment. I’m thinking that the effect would be VERY similar the how the hotel key artifact worked in the sci-fi mini-series “The Lost Room” in that no matter what a door originally opens into, it you unlock the door with this special key it always takes you to the exact same place… the “lost room”… cool show, too!.
This. Monica entered via a (probably at least slightly magical) door but now she’s in the library. I expect it’s at least as easy to walk over to that reading area from the stacks as from the new door. And Euryale might not blend in on Minneapolis streets.
Really, I get the first comment? Wow. Anyway, I didn’t know Medusa kisses cured the stone thing. Did the kiss make her snakes go away? Still a cliff hanger Friday to come, but I hope Euryale will not be looking all soft/Disney Princessy from now on.
If you look over this strip and yesterday’s you’ll see that Euryale’s hair shifts quickly between snakes and normal(ish) hair. (She’s got a lot of body in that. Hairspray? Bored snakes?) It seems to change with her mood, which makes sense as the petrification gaze makes a hell of a defense mechanism as long as you can turn it off.
Legend says nothing of an easy reversal, but we’re already much closer to original Gorgon lore than to the early golem stories.
Kudos to Craig and zacharaiaha they are pillars of the community and awarded this medal declaring them chock full of schist puns. I hope they don’t take this award for granite, because it is founded by an organization grounded firmly on the bedrock principle of giving people what they so justly deserve. Strike up the music
Awwww… she’s cute!! I love her big, shiny eyes!! XD
Heh, and I don’t know if it’s an inking mistake, but it looks like she’s got a little gap in her front teeth. Please let it stay!! That’s a fun design quirk!! XD
Can’t remember who, but someone around this forum has done some awesome colorizations of Paul’s work which incorporated beautiful eyes like that. Euryale’s gorgeous peepers made me think of those, and yes they work so very well here… *swoon*
Sorry, Ray, I used that same pun in a comment in one of yesterday’s threads.
I’m not sure whether you get a discount on your pun-jar debit, or whether you have to pay a double fine… that depends on the phase of the moon, and we haven’t even selected which moon applies this month.
Whoof. I’d charge you double, for giving you such a great setup on that one, but I honestly didn’t realize I was being the straight-man for once. So, you get it for free, with a double-extra helping of “Nicely done!”
I’ll even pay the Jar for you on this one… >>clank<<
But, another compliment on her eyes. It’s lovely, how in this comic “realistic eyes” stand actually in the line of “somewhat creepy or otherwise unnatural eyes” oh my they are beautiful.
Panel two suggests it’s too late not to! But Monica wouldn’t poly behind Kevin’s back, even if she got more into ancient apotropaic immortals. Or vice versa.
Interesting defense mechanism, this petrification. Stops the unwanted advances, but is reversible if you decide they’re cute.
That’s how I read it, too…until I read and then re-read the comment about Disney mermaids. I’ll probably still read it “Yur-ee-Ale” in future comics just because my brain won’t wrap around EUR being pronounced AIR.
Well….damn. My mind has been blasted to smithereens. Not kidding: There are psychic shards all over the wall behind me. Probably take me days to pick them all out.
Four golems, two Sphinxes and now a Gorgon in the regular cast. Getting awfully mythical up in here. Although we don’t see Tepoz all that much any more and Jin ain’t a Golem for all practical pourposes, so maybe it’s just two Golems? In any case, I hope Euryale is a regular.
But we know that a myth is as good as a mile (he said, dropping a few loose coins and some pocket lint into the jar)
“Hold on”?? As if Monica had a choice about it at that moment
Interesting how Euryale can turn her gorgon-mojo on and off at will… that’s a new twist on the tradational myth. I wonder whether her non-snake hairstyle is preserved across transitions, or whether this big-hair flip/wave is what it always reverts to?
Come to think of it… that style looks like it might be one for which most women would use some padding to achieve easily… padding traditionally known as “hair rats”. Makes you think… just what does the well-coiffed gorgon feed her snakes?
Five Golems (JIn, Bud, Brandi, Tepoz, and Mayahuel), 2 sphinxes (Phix and Shelly), one demon conglomerate (Tina), one demi-god(dess) (Nudge/Coyote), and now a gorgon (Euryale). I think Katherine is the only Normal Human Female in the cast now, what with M being a Glyoh Reader and Amanda being a Cat Owned…
Curious? I can’t help but wonder now that M’s been turned to stone and then restored to flesh by the same Medusae.
Is she now immune to the effects of the Gorgons gaze?
To me it looks like the process of stoning somebody is a reflexive defense, not usually under conscious control. especially with her saying that M startled her. i’m sure that she probably COULD do it on a conscious basis, but…
as for her being immune? well, i guess if she gets surprised again by Monica we’ll find out, but i don’t think she’s immune, it’s just that we’ve never heard legends, or stories, of anyone that’s been stoned ever being UN-stoned… so therefore, we don’t “know” if that person would or wouldn’t be able to get RE-stoned again.. ya’ know what i mean?!
Awh… I really would prefer that her hair stays like in the second panel, all those cute little snakies still able to poke out and look around, just without auto-stoning people.
Well, as Dave mentioned in the comment strong above this one, she seems to be able to turn off the Gorgon powers. Maybe Paul will only draw snakey hair when she’s using the stoning ability. After all, she had this same pretty up-sweep of hair on yesterday’s page before Monica startled her.
You’re right though…it would be a pain in the behind to draw each little snake every time she appears…
Oh. I LIKE her! And her eyes are NOT creepy! They make her look earnest and (dare I use this word considering her lack of apparell?) perky. And even tho’ I’m not a snake lover, hers are cute! They have the kind of expression in their eyes that my cats get when something they’ve done hasn’t QUITE worked out the way they planned. “Oops….oh well….”
“Four golems, two Sphinxes and a Gorgon in the libr’y!”
Not quite a pun, but bad enuf. Sorry Boxilar, but that chorus from the Xmas carol just sorta popped into my head when I read that sentence! Sorry!
Besides, the IRL legends are varied. I have heard all the Gecko-Roman legends in several different ways. Seems to depend on the translation of that day.
They’re retelling these stories over hundreds of years. It’s like expecting the DreamWorks people to stick faithfully to the 17th Century text of Puss-In-Boots.
After reading Paul’s work here I started to look at the myths I was reading and wondering, Is the man eating monster that he just killed really just a pacifistic vegetarian that was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the story needed more excitment so the story teller LIED HIS ASS OFF. Sorry lost my head for a moment. ;-p
Yesterday i had somehow convinsed myself that Euryale would have a Kate Blanchett “lord of the rings Galadriel deep inner voice” with a hint of Indiana Jones Villain twist “We meeat at last, Muonicee! Speak fast mourtal or i keeel yuu!”.
But today i see i was totally wrong and Euryale “sounds” a lot more Joan Cusack as in Toy Story 2′s Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl “Yeeehaaaaww!”
There’s just one (semi-real-world) aspect to her eyes which really will make them unsettling.
Unless I’m badly mistaken, Paul has drawn her eyes (last frame at least) digitally, during the later stage of the strip production process. They aren’t part of the ink-and-marker drawing.
Whoever buys the original artwork for this strip, will be getting a Little Orphan Euryale, with blank white eyes.
You might be right about the eyes, but I’m betting Paul drew them by hand. I’ve seen lots of realistic looking penciled eyes and they look an awful lot like Euryale’s. The only problem I can imagine is in inking them. I’m hoping against ‘Little Orphan Annie’ eyes.
It looks as if we were each half-correct. The artwork is up on eBay, and she does not have blank white eyes. Nor does she have the fully-shaded and detailed eyes shown in the final strip. It looks as if Paul did her eyes through a combination of drawing/inking, and digital shading.
Great final effect. Makes me a bit wistful… I wish I had at least some talent at drawing or other art.
Hows aboot “Airy” has a Minnesota/Sarah Palin sound in her voice. And as stated earlier’the snakes’ appear when she is Startled,scared….OR – If someone Really, REALLY “Pisses her OFF!” Oh Boy, watch out Shelly.
Oh WOW!
You just started a storyline with my personal greek myth fandom!
The Gorgon sisters Stheno, Euryale, and the most famous Medusa.
Stheno and Euryale were immoral but Medusa wasn’t.
I don’t remember the immortal sisters having a stone gaze but man I’m intrigued! I so can’t wait to see what happens!
If she were using noise cancelling headphones or if the volume was really loud, that might be a problem. I don’t know about you, but I can hear people pretty clearly when I’m listening to music using earbuds…which is why I always turned my volume waaay too high…which is why my hearing’s not to great.
I need better headphones
my cheepo gummy ones are good but some of my songs are quite low even tho my nanu is set on high volume.
any one got recomendations?
I’ve built a couple of the Headbanger designs. They aren’t the greatest but work well enough for the price of a few Radioshack parts. I’ve got the parts for the CMoy design for when I get a round tuit…
So i follow u on Paul’s links and i see a “Tiger” amp – the tin it’s built in, that is.
Way back in 1971, Popular Electronics published a construction for a mono amp called the “Plastic Tiger” (one of a series of kit amps called “{something} Tiger”; this one had epoxy power transistors).
It had a neat illustration; ten year later, when i needed a column-head logo (and a title) for a fanzine column i was writing, i bethought me of that article, and i hunted up a copy at the library (not the library), and the column (and subsequently, my domain) was born under the name “An Elecktronick Tyger”, with the appropriate header logo.
If I recall correctly, we were up to the “Pun Dumptruck” level, the day Jin banged her shins, and there was a proposal on the table to switch up to a dis-used grain silo.
I’d say it would be wise to turn away should one have to wake her. Also never prank her with an ice cube down her blouse (when she’s wearing one). On her back, OTOH, while she’s looking at someone else might be entertaining now that we know it’s reversible.
I wonder whether felony-level offenses committed in the Library are prosecutable back out in Minneapolis?
If so, Euryale has a problem, as she’s committed two. First, she turned Monica into a rock with her curse, and then she jumped on her and snogged without having received willing consent.
Definitely a case of “basalt and at-her-y”.
(pours a small handful of gold dust into the few remaining crevices of un-filled space in the Pun Jar. Paul, you gotta empty this thing, and buy yourself a serious pat-on-the-back while you’re at it, OK?)
There are some good attempts at clever wordplay in these comments, but despite nearly a dozen of them coming close to being worthy of acclaim, no pun in ten did.
So … tomorrow we find out:
A) Euryale was looking for information on Vimana cells as well and has the exact book Monica needs already (hey, if Bud can find the artifact by chance on a sub, anything’s possible).
B) Euryale knows all about them and/or where to locate some.
C) Euryale lives nearby and make a good living selling amazingly lifelike and intricate “carvings” of small animals.
D) Monica wants to know why Euryale is naked and she points to the nearby tanning bed explaining how she hates tan lines.
E) Silenus strolls by and does them both. We find he’s immune to stoning.
I’ve heard of metamorphic rock but thats new to me! Well Monica, that’s what happens when you take your first impression for granite (swipes credit card through reader on pun jar) And it looks like the Medusa’s are wild in this game (Federal armored truck pulls up along side of pun jar)
Although I think the puns should cease now, I always thought Monica was a perfect hardbody and I do appreciate the sediment(ary) nonetheless (Pun jar sprouts legs and runs out of room SCREAMING!!!) see you next strip…
Pretty sure if the pun jar was an actual jar, we would have broke it a long time ago. I remember a few of the larger donations being a working atm and a chest of dabloons….
just sayain…
Making new friends….
Also (repeating my last post on previous page) since she’s in the ANNEX, she must live in the MSP area!
I don’t think so. The door to the annex is actually a portal, so she isn’t in MSP. Monica said “library”. I think she is there. It just seems like an annex.
I interpreted Monica’s rather uncertain “H,Hello Library?” and other comments at the time to mean that even after she was inside the “Annex” all she saw was an abandoned building, until the Library responded. I’m thinking that this Annex proper is somewhere between realities – not actually the main Library, but not really on Earth (or MSP) either.
the way i see it, is that when Monica walked in and said “and NOT a scary abandoned building” was because from the outside before she walked in it “was” an abandoned building and she could see that, but after she went thru the door/gate she came into the “empty” annex floor, that after she told the annex systems what she was after, it then filled up with bookshelves ala’ Matrix. That’s why she was hesitant at first, she was expecting the annex to look similar to the main library, already filled with a bunch of book shelves like a IRL library would be, not just a nicely finished but EMPTY room.
as for Euryale, i personally would agree that she walked in via the same street entrance that M did, however, it could also be said that “The Annex” is just a shared-room construct that can be accessed from anywhere if there is a proper door/gate alignment. I’m thinking that the effect would be VERY similar the how the hotel key artifact worked in the sci-fi mini-series “The Lost Room” in that no matter what a door originally opens into, it you unlock the door with this special key it always takes you to the exact same place… the “lost room”… cool show, too!.
This. Monica entered via a (probably at least slightly magical) door but now she’s in the library. I expect it’s at least as easy to walk over to that reading area from the stacks as from the new door. And Euryale might not blend in on Minneapolis streets.
L-Space.
Oook.
OK in the wapsiverse the curse went to both sisters and can be reversed with a kiss from the gorgon.
…three. There were three Gorgons. One of whom lost her head.
Really, I get the first comment? Wow. Anyway, I didn’t know Medusa kisses cured the stone thing. Did the kiss make her snakes go away? Still a cliff hanger Friday to come, but I hope Euryale will not be looking all soft/Disney Princessy from now on.
Oops?
Snakes? That reminds me:
Q. How does a Gorgon keep her hair smooth and manageable?
A. “Knock it off you guys, or it’s braids for a week!”
If you look over this strip and yesterday’s you’ll see that Euryale’s hair shifts quickly between snakes and normal(ish) hair. (She’s got a lot of body in that. Hairspray? Bored snakes?) It seems to change with her mood, which makes sense as the petrification gaze makes a hell of a defense mechanism as long as you can turn it off.
Legend says nothing of an easy reversal, but we’re already much closer to original Gorgon lore than to the early golem stories.
I wonder if this is the first time Monica got stoned and kissed a girl…
Pun Jar! Now!
No pun jar. This is obviously covered by the statue of limitations!
PUN JAR!! Double rates for you, zacharaiaha! Gawd!
Personaly, I think Monica was scared stiff….. but she puts up a rock hard front.
Ten dollars for that one! >:^G
I think were gonna need a bigger pun jar. ;-P
That’s not a gorgon conclusion…
GET THEE TO A PUNNERY!
I’d say they were slated to get off to a rocky start, but I’m glad Euryale isn’t gravelling for Monica’s forgiveness.
Man you guys are asking for it today, chalk up another one… wait…
Or if she liked the taste of her granite chapped lips?
I wouldn’t take it for granite.
Euryale and Monica sitting in a tree…
She kissed a girl did she like it?………Nah!She gonna go find Kevin.
Kudos to Craig and zacharaiaha they are pillars of the community and awarded this medal declaring them chock full of
schistpuns. I hope they don’t take this award for granite, because it is founded by an organization grounded firmly on the bedrock principle of giving people what they so justly deserve. Strike up the musicI thought they were gneiss ones.
I thought the puns were good, too. But Monica had a pair of gneiss ones. (Ker-plunk)
Coming out isn’t easy, especially if your a rock. You obviously need a girlfriends help then.
Frankly, I’m disappointed at all you (male) followers! You meet a hot, naked chick… IN THE LIBRARY. You get rock-hard and she kisses you…
…AND I”M THE FIRST TO MAKE THIS INNUENDO???
Sheesh!
Well, some of us have class. I teach mine on Saturdays at 10 AM… $0.02 in the pun jar skyhook style >plink, plink<
Boy, this is a hard audience. It’s rocky making a pun here. I suspect I’ll have to shale out some bucks if I get any bolder.
[Slips a small, sparkly rock into the jar--it's too full for anything bigger.]
Oh, gawd. Having to sit here and listen to a bunch of shameless punsters trade back and forth is a fate worse than deaf.
Awwww… she’s cute!! I love her big, shiny eyes!! XD
Heh, and I don’t know if it’s an inking mistake, but it looks like she’s got a little gap in her front teeth. Please let it stay!! That’s a fun design quirk!! XD
No matter where I move those eyes are following me around the room.
Inspired by Lauren Hutton! =D
Haha!! AWESOME!!
Physical quirks are awesome. I have character that’s pigeon-toed.
@DJ – LOL!! She’s watching you. XD
Also, it seems like I hear a southern accent when she speaks, based on the phrasing. Kinda.
NOTDilbert- Just what I need, One Gorgon ‘Valley Girl’ with brains that work. Talk about against type! Love it.
Wait…I’m confused. Southern accent = “Valley Girl” how??
Like, y’all know, for sure, right?
Or she spent a lot of time in Baltimore. I heard “Hun” quite plainly.
Can’t remember who, but someone around this forum has done some awesome colorizations of Paul’s work which incorporated beautiful eyes like that. Euryale’s gorgeous peepers made me think of those, and yes they work so very well here… *swoon*
Those eyes creep me the fuck out…..
Also, there’s something inherently wrong about Paul updating AFTER Jeph Jacques :/
…and Tina and Jin’s eyes don’t?
(Well, Jin’s eyes as the were.)
There’s didn’t because Tina and Jin’s eyes don’t look like real eyes, like those above
*shudder*
Love the new effect your using with your Grav’s btw.
You’ve got to be kidding her eyes are no more than a 5.0 on a 10 point Katherine scale.
Like! Also, very true!
Gotta figure that any character with such luscious, depth-filled expressive eyes must certainly have all sorts of inventive mischief to back them up.
This is going to be interesting.
Monica Villarreal is in the Library.
Monica Villarreal has been saved.
Ah, far-roaming Euryale. She’ll be a part of your world.
O0o…
I hope Monica won’t forget to count the shadows… (Beware of the Vashta Nerada).
as opposed to shadowing the Count (which did not work out at all well for Jonathan Harker)
Yep…you called it. Euryale.
…I want to be where the people aren’t stone!
Flesh is needed or you are alone.
Wild and live,
Uncalcified,
PART OF THEIR WOOOOOOORLD!
Great, Now I actually want to hear that done.
Doctor Who puns? This early?
Did she kiss Monica so hard she chipped a tooth?
Nah, Mon didn’t turn to stone.
I see that Monica’s clothing was unaffected.
Nice attention to detail.
Yup. way to sent that old trope to the slag heap.
Not only is she friendly, she’s perky! I like Euryale.
I would have expected her third sister to be jotting down notes in the library, what with being a Sthenographer and all.
Sorry, Ray, I used that same pun in a comment in one of yesterday’s threads.
I’m not sure whether you get a discount on your pun-jar debit, or whether you have to pay a double fine… that depends on the phase of the moon, and we haven’t even selected which moon applies this month.
Judging from panel two, yesterday, a full moon…
I hope you paid for that one. . . .
But it’s a very perceptive comment.
Whoof. I’d charge you double, for giving you such a great setup on that one, but I honestly didn’t realize I was being the straight-man for once. So, you get it for free, with a double-extra helping of “Nicely done!”
I’ll even pay the Jar for you on this one… >>clank<<
Between the “Awww Jeeze” and the “Please to meet ya.” All I hear is Harley Quinn from Batman the animated series…
This.
“Oh, I’m sorry, Missus M. I keep telling the guys to stay down when I’m here in the library, doancha know.”
Teenage Little Red Riding hood from the Bugs Bunny Cartoon?
I believe this is the first character drawn with an actual nose, as opposed to the chevron Paul usually draws for a nose.
Well, she is Greek, donchanose…
“Goodnight Mrs. Chimera, wherever you are!”
aw damn, don’t make the snakes go awayyy
But, another compliment on her eyes. It’s lovely, how in this comic “realistic eyes” stand actually in the line of “somewhat creepy or otherwise unnatural eyes”
oh my they are beautiful.
Is it too early to ship these two?
Panel two suggests it’s too late not to! But Monica wouldn’t poly behind Kevin’s back, even if she got more into ancient apotropaic immortals. Or vice versa.
Interesting defense mechanism, this petrification. Stops the unwanted advances, but is reversible if you decide they’re cute.
Monica’s been kissed by demons and groped by a former immortal (and demons) before. She should be used to it by now.
Who said she would do it behind his back. The more the merrier I always say! Ain’t no fun if the Gorgon can’t have none.
Screw the pun jar, We need a pun bathtub.
“Euryale” isn’t spelled funny? (I didn’t get it until about the third read-through that it’s supposed to sound like “Ariel”.)
I read it a Yur-ee-Ale, not Air-ee-Ale. Works for me anyway.
That’s how I read it, too…until I read and then re-read the comment about Disney mermaids. I’ll probably still read it “Yur-ee-Ale” in future comics just because my brain won’t wrap around EUR being pronounced AIR.
Until I hit this thread I had *NO* idea what the Disney reference was about.
You see, it should be pronounced approximately:
yer-ee-AH-lay. Different number of syllables, and emphasis in a totally different place.
The interwebs tell me “yu-RI-a-lee”, fwiw.
(Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/euryale)
It’s that Greek to English translation glitch, Not so common unless you are a Latin scholar I think.
similar to jehova/iehova?
(indiana jones there … spelt with an I
)
Yeah–but for Jehovah, you need the vowels from “Adonai” with the consonants for the tetragrammaton, in German.
More like how we get the name Jesus. “But in Greek names have to end with consonants!” “Fine, JesuS then.”
and you got it wrong… even wrong from the movie.
“spelt with a ‘G’ “
Well….damn. My mind has been blasted to smithereens. Not kidding: There are psychic shards all over the wall behind me. Probably take me days to pick them all out.
I think that the kiss to change a male back from stone, if it works at all, wouldn’t be 100% effective…
Of course not. Once the stone is undone he’ll go to sleep for the rest of the night!
Ok, into the pun jar with you.
I think that’s less for the pun jar and more for the innuendo jar.
We’re not starting that…I would be screwed!!!
~snicker~ totally called it with the Tegen and Sara from yesterday. Also she’s a cutie, love her.
Four golems, two Sphinxes and now a Gorgon in the regular cast. Getting awfully mythical up in here. Although we don’t see Tepoz all that much any more and Jin ain’t a Golem for all practical pourposes, so maybe it’s just two Golems? In any case, I hope Euryale is a regular.
I’m with you on that Boxilar, Euyale is a cutie, and atleast she doesn’t appear to be snake on the bottom sooo~ yeah.
and she appears to be quite nude and happy with it
I’m usually happy to be nude as well, when alone or in the presence of someone who can tollerate such a thing.
She’s not nude. She’s wearing an iPod???
I wonder if she has a snake tail?
Doubtful but well..she might
actually it’s 5 Golems: Bud, Brandi, Jin, May, and
Tepoz.
Perhaps Paul should change the page title to “Wapsi Square – Slice of mythological life YA comic”
Forget the slice.
Its the whole pie
But we know that a myth is as good as a mile (he said, dropping a few loose coins and some pocket lint into the jar)
“Hold on”?? As if Monica had a choice about it at that moment
Interesting how Euryale can turn her gorgon-mojo on and off at will… that’s a new twist on the tradational myth. I wonder whether her non-snake hairstyle is preserved across transitions, or whether this big-hair flip/wave is what it always reverts to?
Come to think of it… that style looks like it might be one for which most women would use some padding to achieve easily… padding traditionally known as “hair rats”. Makes you think… just what does the well-coiffed gorgon feed her snakes?
Chocodiles of course…
Maybe she is like Katherine and just feels more comfy nude while relaxing. On a side note, I wonder if she will make a good friend for Katherine.
Five Golems (JIn, Bud, Brandi, Tepoz, and Mayahuel), 2 sphinxes (Phix and Shelly), one demon conglomerate (Tina), one demi-god(dess) (Nudge/Coyote), and now a gorgon (Euryale). I think Katherine is the only Normal Human Female in the cast now, what with M being a Glyoh Reader and Amanda being a Cat Owned…
If Katherine is our reference for ‘normal human,’ I think we’ve wandered a bit.
The wandering is everything in The Waspiverse
Who else are we going to use? Ourselves?
Curious? I can’t help but wonder now that M’s been turned to stone and then restored to flesh by the same Medusae.
Is she now immune to the effects of the Gorgons gaze?
To me it looks like the process of stoning somebody is a reflexive defense, not usually under conscious control. especially with her saying that M startled her. i’m sure that she probably COULD do it on a conscious basis, but…
as for her being immune? well, i guess if she gets surprised again by Monica we’ll find out, but i don’t think she’s immune, it’s just that we’ve never heard legends, or stories, of anyone that’s been stoned ever being UN-stoned… so therefore, we don’t “know” if that person would or wouldn’t be able to get RE-stoned again.. ya’ know what i mean?!
If she see’s hear reflection, how does she kiss herself???
I’m guessing you would need some sister on sister action. – Yesh, I went there.
Awh… I really would prefer that her hair stays like in the second panel, all those cute little snakies still able to poke out and look around, just without auto-stoning people.
Problem is that all the snakes, no doubt, takes a lot longer to draw, so I don’t expect to see them too often in the future.
Well, as Dave mentioned in the comment strong above this one, she seems to be able to turn off the Gorgon powers. Maybe Paul will only draw snakey hair when she’s using the stoning ability. After all, she had this same pretty up-sweep of hair on yesterday’s page before Monica startled her.
You’re right though…it would be a pain in the behind to draw each little snake every time she appears…
Oh. I LIKE her! And her eyes are NOT creepy! They make her look earnest and (dare I use this word considering her lack of apparell?) perky. And even tho’ I’m not a snake lover, hers are cute! They have the kind of expression in their eyes that my cats get when something they’ve done hasn’t QUITE worked out the way they planned. “Oops….oh well….”
“Four golems, two Sphinxes and a Gorgon in the libr’y!”
Not quite a pun, but bad enuf. Sorry Boxilar, but that chorus from the Xmas carol just sorta popped into my head when I read that sentence! Sorry!
She can “fix” me annnnnnnytime she likes.
So four golems, two spinxes and a gorgon walk into a bar…
…did I myth anything?
Did you myth the pun jar?
Pretty sure you both did…
I thought of the 3 Gorgon sisters, only Medusa’s gaze could turn someone to stone?
and there we have the disconnect between IRL legends and Wapsi Square reality… Paul takes his cue from IRL, but puts his OWN spin on things… Great!
Besides, the IRL legends are varied. I have heard all the Gecko-Roman legends in several different ways. Seems to depend on the translation of that day.
They’re retelling these stories over hundreds of years. It’s like expecting the DreamWorks people to stick faithfully to the 17th Century text of Puss-In-Boots.
….Not to mention all of the fairy tales that Disney has altered to make the stories simpler, less dark, and with happy endings…
“Gecko-Roman”?
Is that a lizard from Italy?
First cousin to the infamous Centurion Chameleon?
He works for Geico dontYaKnow.
(That what happens when your forum lacks editing lol))
That’s the great thing about standards. There’s so many to choose from.
We already know that Oedipus padded his story. I wouldn’t be surprised if Perseus did the same.
I always figured that holds true will most of all Myths. They mostly read like pissing contests after all.
After reading Paul’s work here I started to look at the myths I was reading and wondering, Is the man eating monster that he just killed really just a pacifistic vegetarian that was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the story needed more excitment so the story teller LIED HIS ASS OFF. Sorry lost my head for a moment. ;-p
Paul isn’t the only one who does that to myths. Tom Siddell did the same here.
Medusa may have turned people to stone, but Euryale clearly has something different…notice the splashes around M, and that her hair now looks wet…
I’ve seen references to the gorgons associated to the sea. But being no great scholar of Greek myth I couldn’t give a real reference to that.
OOH!
Does that mean her hair is done up in a wave?
There’s so many things I love about this page, But I really love the concerned look all the snakes are giving Monica.
I want one
so cute
A Snake or a Gorgon???
;-P
Yes.
Add another mark to the “Girls Monica’s kissed” counter.
To be fair, she didn’t so much kiss her as was kissed by her. Monica being a hunk of granite at the time…
Yesterday i had somehow convinsed myself that Euryale would have a Kate Blanchett “lord of the rings Galadriel deep inner voice” with a hint of Indiana Jones Villain twist “We meeat at last, Muonicee! Speak fast mourtal or i keeel yuu!”.
But today i see i was totally wrong and Euryale “sounds” a lot more Joan Cusack as in Toy Story 2′s Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl “Yeeehaaaaww!”
There’s just one (semi-real-world) aspect to her eyes which really will make them unsettling.
Unless I’m badly mistaken, Paul has drawn her eyes (last frame at least) digitally, during the later stage of the strip production process. They aren’t part of the ink-and-marker drawing.
Whoever buys the original artwork for this strip, will be getting a Little Orphan Euryale, with blank white eyes.
Now, to me, that is creepy.
You might be right about the eyes, but I’m betting Paul drew them by hand. I’ve seen lots of realistic looking penciled eyes and they look an awful lot like Euryale’s. The only problem I can imagine is in inking them. I’m hoping against ‘Little Orphan Annie’ eyes.
It looks as if we were each half-correct. The artwork is up on eBay, and she does not have blank white eyes. Nor does she have the fully-shaded and detailed eyes shown in the final strip. It looks as if Paul did her eyes through a combination of drawing/inking, and digital shading.
Great final effect. Makes me a bit wistful… I wish I had at least some talent at drawing or other art.
after reading this again I have to say that I totally hear Euryale’s voice as the Harley Quin from the Batman cartoons.
Yep.. Arlene Sorkin voices Harley in the tradition of the tough-talking cookies of early silent films.
Or Hazel from the old TV show.
Same thing.
Interesting how she’s about the first “supernatural” character (besides maybe Tepoz) we’ve met who doesn’t have the big sharp canines.
What about Shelly? She’s a sphinx. They’re supernatural characters, right.
And Shelly has fangs when she sphinxes out.
I think we can assume all her snakes have big sharp fangs.
Hows aboot “Airy” has a Minnesota/Sarah Palin sound in her voice. And as stated earlier’the snakes’ appear when she is Startled,scared….OR – If someone Really, REALLY “Pisses her OFF!” Oh Boy, watch out Shelly.
You could get lost in Euryale’s eyes. If eyes are windows to the soul, she has a wonderful one.
Oh WOW!
You just started a storyline with my personal greek myth fandom!
The Gorgon sisters Stheno, Euryale, and the most famous Medusa.
Stheno and Euryale were immoral but Medusa wasn’t.
I don’t remember the immortal sisters having a stone gaze but man I’m intrigued! I so can’t wait to see what happens!
Gods I’m such a dork!
Welcome to the family.
The shipping – Dear God, the SHIPPING! – that will result from this kiss…
And I note she’s still got her iPod in and on and probably won’t be able to hear a word Monica says until she turns it off…
If she were using noise cancelling headphones or if the volume was really loud, that might be a problem.
I don’t know about you, but I can hear people pretty clearly when I’m listening to music using earbuds…which is why I always turned my volume waaay too high…which is why my hearing’s not to great. 
I need better headphones
my cheepo gummy ones are good but some of my songs are quite low even tho my nanu is set on high volume.
any one got recomendations?
You need an outboard amp to power the headphones. I highly recommend this guy’s portable amps: http://www.ebay.com/sch/juice2214/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
and for the home, one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Head-Direct-HIFIMAN-EF2A-USB-Headphone-Amplifier-FREE-SHIPPING-/250917104841
I’ve built a couple of the Headbanger designs. They aren’t the greatest but work well enough for the price of a few Radioshack parts. I’ve got the parts for the CMoy design for when I get a round tuit…
So i follow u on Paul’s links and i see a “Tiger” amp – the tin it’s built in, that is.
Way back in 1971, Popular Electronics published a construction for a mono amp called the “Plastic Tiger” (one of a series of kit amps called “{something} Tiger”; this one had epoxy power transistors).
It had a neat illustration; ten year later, when i needed a column-head logo (and a title) for a fanzine column i was writing, i bethought me of that article, and i hunted up a copy at the library (not the library), and the column (and subsequently, my domain) was born under the name “An Elecktronick Tyger”, with the appropriate header logo.
yeah
you’d think no one had ever seen two girls snog.
go watch day time telly or something
You can never get enough snogging girls!
Oh yes you can. Trust me.
“Real artists ship.”
-Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
The Pun Jar has broken! Get the Pun BARREL out here!!!
Forget coins, we’re going to have to start taking credit cards.
If I recall correctly, we were up to the “Pun Dumptruck” level, the day Jin banged her shins, and there was a proposal on the table to switch up to a dis-used grain silo.
Yeah, I think the pun jar thing has been way overdone.
So adorable snakes when she turns people to stone otherwise normal hair?
Explains how she got the (presumed) ipod. she would be fine anywhere as long as she is relaxed
and yeah .. those snakes were not as cute yesterday
I’d say it would be wise to turn away should one have to wake her. Also never prank her with an ice cube down her blouse (when she’s wearing one). On her back, OTOH, while she’s looking at someone else might be entertaining now that we know it’s reversible.
Oh, I found the cartoon from Oglaf I described yesterday. A variation on the Medusa theme.
Warning:NSFW. Nudity, explicit sexual dialog and a sex act contained therein.
http://www.oglaf.com/porkchisel/1/
even better: http://www.oglaf.com/snakeskin/
Heh. I’d forgotten that one even as I linked to the ‘snake tits’ strip.
She is positively adorable!
Aww! How adorable! That and a gratuitous lesbian kiss and you got yourself a webcomic! lol.
Loving this character after only 2 comics! Really like the expressions on the snakes lol
I wonder whether felony-level offenses committed in the Library are prosecutable back out in Minneapolis?
If so, Euryale has a problem, as she’s committed two. First, she turned Monica into a rock with her curse, and then she jumped on her and snogged without having received willing consent.
Definitely a case of “basalt and at-her-y”.
(pours a small handful of gold dust into the few remaining crevices of un-filled space in the Pun Jar. Paul, you gotta empty this thing, and buy yourself a serious pat-on-the-back while you’re at it, OK?)
“Basalt and At-her-y!!” Brilliant!!
There are some good attempts at clever wordplay in these comments, but despite nearly a dozen of them coming close to being worthy of acclaim, no pun in ten did.
So … tomorrow we find out:
A) Euryale was looking for information on Vimana cells as well and has the exact book Monica needs already (hey, if Bud can find the artifact by chance on a sub, anything’s possible).
B) Euryale knows all about them and/or where to locate some.
C) Euryale lives nearby and make a good living selling amazingly lifelike and intricate “carvings” of small animals.
D) Monica wants to know why Euryale is naked and she points to the nearby tanning bed explaining how she hates tan lines.
E) Silenus strolls by and does them both. We find he’s immune to stoning.
If the small animals are squirrels then she and Katherine will get along just fine.
I’ve heard of metamorphic rock but thats new to me! Well Monica, that’s what happens when you take your first impression for granite (swipes credit card through reader on pun jar) And it looks like the Medusa’s are wild in this game (Federal armored truck pulls up along side of pun jar)
Don’t you mean metaphoric rock?
YOU MAY THINK YOUR ALL THAT MONICA VILLAREAL, BUT YOU’RE SNOG! (Texas state lottery Jackpot being funneled into pun jar):-D
Although I think the puns should cease now, I always thought Monica was a perfect hardbody and I do appreciate the sediment(ary) nonetheless (Pun jar sprouts legs and runs out of room SCREAMING!!!) see you next strip…
Great, now I have to go catch it.
Pretty sure if the pun jar was an actual jar, we would have broke it a long time ago. I remember a few of the larger donations being a working atm and a chest of dabloons….
just sayain…
I think they empty the pun jar every few comics. That or the pun jar has time lord technology and it’s bigger on the inside
just don’t curse the thing
paper cuts are a bugger but slicing your hand to prevent a curse is just annoying..
though
thinking on those lines
what WOULD the wapsi curse be?
turning into animals?
“Interesting times”
I just realized what music Euryale is really listening to!
It’s her own theme song… Euryali, a modernistic piece for solo piano by Xenakis.
I’m sorry, Dave; I’m afraid I can’t watch that. The link appears to be broken, Dave.
Blast… I must have mis-typed it. Sorry about that!
If you do a search at YouTube on the name Euryali you’ll find several performances of it… about 10 minutes each.
Is it wrong of me that I hear Euryale as “Muriel”, without the “M”, and in Courage the Cowardly Dog’s voice?
Yes. Yes it is.
I used that line on another board … and then i had to explain about Phineas and Ferb.
Did you know their contract with Disney required an original musical piece in every segment?
There’s a lot of monkee-business in the average P&F episode…
If you have to explain about Phineas and Ferb, you’re on the wrong comment site….
Muriel, eh? Now I’m hearing it as Eur-a-Lee and thinking of the Lorelei….
Another maiden luring people on?
Lorelei?
it kinda bothers me that you were all so eager to use rock puns, that none of you realized that Monica doesn’t turn to stone….
Oh? So what do *you* think the grey flesh, blanked out eyes, and splashing water in the FIRST panel represent, if not petrification?
Especially as it happened after seeing a Gorgon in “all its glory”?
This is annoying. 3:03 AM EDT and still no update!!!
*cricket* *cricket*
Yeah, it’s slightly irritating, but Paul’s life doesn’t revolve around us.
No problem with that, true — just the anxious anticipation!
…Wait, didn’t Medusa have a sister by that name?
And if someone has already asked or answered this, I apologize.
I have an overpowering urge to lean in close and see what’s on her playlist…
Euryale’s looking … significantly better than she did in God of War 2.
Ah, Euryale. One of the sisters, then. So where’s Stheno?